The mayor of an Italian seaside town is attempting to ban miniskirts in an attempt to improve standards of public decency. The proposed policy would also outlaw sunbathing, playing football in public places and blasphemy in the town of Castellammare di Stabia. Anyone who ignores the ban would face fines of between £25 and £500, [...]
Today is a special day for those boys and girls who believe in same sex love and have faced the flak from the mainstream society for their choices. September turned out to be a terrible month for teens belonging to the LGBT community as 6 teenagers were driven to commit suicide owing to inhuman bullying [...]
Banks are stepping up their efforts to attract female customers and persuade them to assert their financial independence. Are you a Smart Woman? That’s the question Barclays is asking its female customers. The bank is the latest company to try to capitalise on the growing band of women-only websites and chat forums. Its new website, [...]
Nadja Benaissa, a German popstar who admitted having unprotected sexual intercourse with three men without telling them she was HIV positive, has escaped a prison sentence. Benaissa, who was a member of the popular German girl band No Angels, was given a two-year suspended sentence after telling the court she was “sorry with all my [...]
Stephen Lacey has been busy visiting and eating at some 40 country houses around Britain, to update the National Trust’s garden guide book. Writing with my fingers stained with the juice of black raspberries, I must admit that something momentous has been taking place in our historic gardens and I have been very slow to [...]
The shortage of country houses on the market has led to more flamboyant barn conversions, says Caroline McGhie . A new Leviathan has arrived in the property market. It was born out of the boom years, funded by the new rich of the Blair era, for whom there were not enough big country houses to [...]
Critics of Big Brother have never been convinced that the reality TV show has any merit as a social experiment. Yet, as the final series draws to a close, it can be credited with teaching us one thing — people love to tan. While the design of the house, the challenges and the levels of [...]
Britney Spears — Minus the Photoshop Singer agrees to have before and after shots out there While former rival Jessica Simpson is out there, trying to show that real beauty does come from the inside, no matter how much of a cliché that might be, Britney Spears is also doing her part for “the cause.” [...]
The amazing story of a Jamaican woman and her racist workmate. If someone had said to me in the 80s that I’d marry a black woman, I’d have said “Never in a million years!” You see, I dread to think how many years I’d been active with the BNP. I was in my late teens [...]
The syringe that administered the fatal drugs to Michael Jackson is set to be auctioned. It is thought his siblings Janet and Tito were told about the sick stunt by lawyers representing the unnamed seller and the outraged family are desperate to stop the sale. The needle is being touted around auction houses in Vegas [...]
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